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Kyocera Communications Inc., a San Diego-based provider of Kyocera- and Sanyo-branded wireless phones in the Americas, said that it was awarded a 2011 Deteriorate Reduction Award from the California Department of Resource Recycling and Bettering (CalRecycle).
In a release, the Company said that it is the ninth year that it has been recognized with the prize by the State's Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP) for its recycling and environmentally comfortable business practices. Kyocera also is the City of San Diego's most-awarded presence for environmental programs.
"Concern for the environment and social responsibility have been key components of Kyocera's government philosophy since the company was founded over 50 years ago," said Yasuhiro Oishi, president of Kyocera Communications Inc. "Modernization shouldn't just be applied to the products we make, but also to how we make them, how our employees comport business and how we can conserve our natural resources."
In line with its corporate commitment to environmental bulwark and "harmonious coexistence," Kyocera believes, and has demonstrated, that striving to belittle environmental impacts from business operations by recycling and reducing extirpate can be both good for the environment and good for business. In 2010, Kyocera Communications Inc. recycled more than 43,596 pounds of foolscap, plastic, electronic and other waste destined for landfills. Kyocera also radically reduced its carbon footprint on its Sanyo-branded phones by shipping phones in volume (rather than in retail packaging) from overseas to a U.S. distributor, increasing phone counts per pallet from 240 to 3,600. The group's offices also reduced electricity consumption by 13 percent and top-grade consumption by 25 percent compared to 2009. Between cost avoidance and recycling takings, these programs contributed more than $7 million to the company's bottom line in 2010.
Source: Waste Management World